Both Vice’s Motherboard and Gizmodo have written about the cable, which was made by a security researcher who goes by MG and is sold online by cybersecurity company Hak5. Dubbed the ‘OMG cable’ after ...

The OMG Cables will be sold at Hak5, for around $100.The site describes the product as “a highly covert malicious USB cable—as soon as the cable is plugged in, it can be controlled through the ...

Motherboard recently wrote about just such a tricky little product, sold by cybersecurity company Hak5 and dubbed the “OMG cable” after its inventor, security researcher MG.The cord, which ...

The OMG Cable, which looks exactly like a standard Lightning to USB cable, was first demoed back in 2019 by security researcher MG. Since then, MG was able to work with cybersecurity vendor Hak5 ...

OMG Cable 1 Articles . WiFi Hides Inside A USB Cable. February 18, 2019 by Brian Benchoff 42 Comments ... Think of it as a BadUSB device, like the USB Rubber Ducky from Hak5, ...

The OMG Cable will go up for sale on Hak5 and will be priced at USD 100. (Representational image) Borrowing smartphone cables come with their own dos and don’ts.

MG has already started to mass-produce the OMG cable and sell it through the hacking community shop Hak5 — ostensibly for security research purposes rather than anything willfully malicious.

MG first tested it in 2019 and since then, it collaborated with Hak5 to produce more of them. ... Users should stay away from this OMG cable, which could create an easy portal for the attacker.

The "OMG Cable" works exactly like a normal Lightning to USB cable ... tools by the security researcher known as "MG," have now entered mass production to be sold by the cybersecurity vendor Hak5.

In a shocking new report, Vice has revealed a next-gen version of the lethal O.MG cable which targeted Mac users has gone on sale, and iPhones are now in its sights. And it can hack you from up to ...

Mar 03, 2020 08:00:00 Appearance of USB cable, contents are hacking tool abuse prohibition cable `` O.MG Cable '' Started sales of USB Type-C version etc. following Lightning ...

So, if you connect this cable for charging your iPhone, and type passwords of banking websites or social media, it will relay the information instantly, as per a report by Vice.